How do we know that now artificial intelligence will really take off?
This has happened in the past where people were really excited and saying things like we will have AI in decade or so. This is happening again. Not sure why people don't learn from history of AI. In both the cases what's happening is this - You develop a technique to solve a particular problem, you apply that technique, the technique seems to be general enough, people start to apply that same technique to various problems, people get excited that this is the silver bullet they were looking for, the technique starts to show its limitations and doesn't work for many problems, hype gets shattered, start over.